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Recent Examples of elementally
Mitski is at her best in this album’s more elementally human moments.
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Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2026
Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for elementally
Adverb
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What arrived was pleasant but essentially identical to the nightly pre-dinner cocktail hour provisions, nothing that suggested the kitchen had treated it as a distinct request.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Feb. 2026
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Will Rogers, a newspaper columnist and vaudeville monologuist—an influencer of the nineteen-tens and twenties—became a movie star who essentially played himself.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
25 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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The ruling is a reminder that some judges view antitrust lawsuits over Division I athlete eligibility as fundamentally a question of economic competition—namely, an athlete selling their services to the marketplace of college buyers—rather than an educational or social issue.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
22 Feb. 2026
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This unnerving Australian indie follows a single mother and her troubled young son, whose lives are fundamentally changed forever upon discovering a pop-up book called Mister Babadook.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Those tongues are basically built-in grooming kits.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
27 Feb. 2026
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My boss was basically like, ‘Thank you for working here.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Ultimately, no compelling research has emerged to bear out the idea that MSG is inherently bad.—
Caroline Tien,
SELF,
23 Feb. 2026
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This isn’t to say that the Rangers have officially given Smith the job, or that Seager’s word is inherently bond, but rather that the 28-year-old appears to have a sizable lead in the race.—
Shawn McFarland,
Dallas Morning News,
23 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Instead of relying on bulky shielding, satellites could use circuits that are intrinsically resistant to radiation.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Feb. 2026
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If the answer is no, that would mean these quantum-input, quantum-output problems are of an intrinsically different nature than classical ones.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Elementally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elementally. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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